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Jon Alpert is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker whose recent work includes "Baghdad ER" and "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq," directed and filmed with Matthew O'Neill for HBO. Alpert is also a co-founder and co-director of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV).

Are We There Yet? a new book by Ben’s mother, Rosie Whitehouse, invites readers into the unseen space of a frontline family as it copes with whatever world politics can throw at it. It is an illuminating and intimate account.

From catastrophic physical injuries to the invisible wounds of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression, the Iraq war has exerted a heavy toll on hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops. At a recent Dart Center event at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, four pioneers in reporting the human impact of the Iraq War discussed the challenges of reporting on these veterans.

The U.S. military is sending troops with serious psychological problems into Iraq and is keeping soldiers in combat even after superiors have been alerted to suicide warnings and other signs of mental illness, a Courant investigation has found. Originally published in the Hartford Courant, May 2006.

In a four-part series, Boston Globe reporter Thomas Farragher and photographer Dina Rudic profile the soldiers who made up "Chaos 4," a three-man squad that patrolled the road to Baghdad International Airport.